Articles Vision Systems Design Video Library Bitmaxx family of products Ray Berst, president of Components Express, talks about the company's Bitmaxx family of products, including cabling that extends Camera Link and FireWire distances, and a Power-over-Ethernet splitter. November 2009 Vision Systems Design Machine Vision Systems Clean Connections For developers of machine-vision systems, especially those used in industrial applications, reliability and mean time between failure (MTBF) is of utmost importance. September 2009 Systems Design Image Processing Open-source system wins VISION Award Every year at the annual VISION 2008 tradeshow in Stuttgart, a particular company is singled out to receive the VISION Award, donated by Messe Stuttgart to honor innovation in the machine-vision industry. January 2009 Extendable Standards Machine Vision Systems Frame grabber and camera vendors are increasing the flexibility of standard camera-to-computer interfaces With the number of camera-to-frame grabber interfaces now available, one might believe that each individual interface offered specific benefits to fit the needs of individual image-processing and machine-vision applications. January 2009 Beating Bits This article is as much a story of a quest as it is a technical article about verifying Camera Link Cable Performance. December 2008 Technology Trends Machine Vision Systems Compensated cable extends PCI Express At VISION 2007 (Stuttgart, Germany), Point Grey Research (Vancouver, BC, Canada; www.ptgrey.com) demonstrated a camera that used the PCI Express 1.1 (PCIe) interface to transfer image data directly to a host PC without requiring a traditional frame grabber. August 2008